Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland · country dossier
Uruguay
Investors attributed to Uruguay reported holding 49K acres of US agricultural land as of 2024-12-31 — 0.1% of all foreign-held US farmland, across 27 holdings.
- Acres (2024)
- 49,246
- Share of foreign-held
- 0.1%
- Holdings
- 27
- Held as ownership
- 100%
Fifteen-year trend
Reported Uruguay holdings grew from 6K acres in 2010 to 49K in 2024, peaking at 49K in 2022. Figures are reported holdings under AFIDA — self-reported minimums that include leases of ten years or longer.
| Year | Reported acres |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 49,246 |
| 2023 | 49,262 |
| 2022 | 49,262 |
| 2021 | 42,951 |
| 2020 | 42,746 |
| 2019 | 42,544 |
| 2018 | 42,544 |
| 2017 | 42,544 |
| 2016 | 24,268 |
| 2015 | 23,190 |
| 2014 | 24,020 |
| 2013 | 22,766 |
| 2012 | 19,164 |
| 2011 | 14,202 |
| 2010 | 6,495 |
Where, and what kind of land
Largest states
Land use (acres)
Aggregated from the USDA FSA AFIDA detailed holdings files (public domain) — see the full dataset, methodology, and the register's documented defects at Foreign-Held U.S. Farmland. Country is the reported first-tier investor, not a verified ultimate parent. Aggregate-level only; no record-level owner names. Keyless JSON for all countries: /foreign-farmland/index.json. CC0.